{"id":28526,"date":"2019-09-11T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28526"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:29:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T20:29:02","slug":"quick-thoughts-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28526","title":{"rendered":"Quick thoughts on . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Transpanency<\/strong>: The Trib adds to the story of an unhappy school board. I offered the video and some context <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28485\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/4655508-Duluth-School-Board-members-call-transparency-of-superintendent-search-into-question\">https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/4655508-Duluth-School-Board-members-call-transparency-of-superintendent-search-into-question<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tonya Sconiers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I must admit that the summary of Tonya&#8217;s crimes seems a bit inflated by the District. You would never know that Tonya once slavishly supported Keith Dixon and the early reign of Bill Gronseth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/4654848-Former-Denfeld-principal-Tonya-Sconiers-termination-letter-claims-conduct-unbecoming-a-principal\">https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/4654848-Former-Denfeld-principal-Tonya-Sconiers-termination-letter-claims-conduct-unbecoming-a-principal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stauber, National Crisis, parking lots<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>Yes Congressman Stauber&#8217;s spouse was a warrior in Iraq. But its not just money for a parking lot in West-point that is being diverted to protect America from Mexican &#8220;rapists.&#8221; It&#8217;s billions of dollars from national security to save us from rape. That is a crises and Pete is happy to stoke it. If we really cared about rapists we might have been a little more careful about who we appointed to the Supreme Court. Or maybe Congress would help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/crime-law\/2019\/09\/07\/advocates-implore-congress-reauthorize-funds-backlogged-dna-rape-kits-before-sept-expiration\/?noredirect=on\">fund 200,000 untested rape kits<\/a> sitting on evidence room shelves all over America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/government-and-politics\/4653800-Citing-crisis-Stauber-approves-of-border-wall-spending\">https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/government-and-politics\/4653800-Citing-crisis-Stauber-approves-of-border-wall-spending<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSankofa\u201d at Duluth\u2019s AME Church<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI was invited to attend St. Marks AME (African Methodist Episcopal) church on Saturday. I haven&#8217;t decided whether to attend but after reading this article I calculated that the church was built in 1888. That was the year after my Grandfather George Robb&#8217;s birth. My grandfather&#8217;s next door neighbor was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/HWRepublican\/George_Robb\/adventureinfreedom.htm\">Larry Lapsley <\/a> who escaped from slavery in Texas during the Civil War. When the Trib story says St.Marks was built by ex slaves its true. The Civil War had ended only twenty-seven years before construction began.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly liked the description of the Ghanaian word &#8220;Sankofa&#8221; because only a few days ago I was accused of looking backwards at the School District&#8217;s misadventures. According to the folks who cherish this word it &#8220;symbolizes a sense of needing to look back in order to move forward.&#8221; To that I say, &#8220;<em>Hallelujah<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/lifestyle\/faith\/4655507-St.-Mark-AME-Church-reflects-on-131-years\">https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/lifestyle\/faith\/4655507-St.-Mark-AME-Church-reflects-on-131-years<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transpanency: The Trib adds to the story of an unhappy school board. I offered the video and some context here. https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/4655508-Duluth-School-Board-members-call-transparency-of-superintendent-search-into-question Tonya Sconiers I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28526"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28540,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28526\/revisions\/28540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}